Episode 209: Orange In Story

Chris and the Toms discuss Assassin’s Creed: Oranges, Divinity: Oranges Sin 2, and the hunt for a missing crate of origins. Also: Cuphead’s accessibility, Skaven’s terrifying ‘shitty rats anywhere’ power in Total War: Warhammer 2, and Battlegrounds’ Chinese review bomb.

• Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds has had 70,000 Steam reviews in the last 30 days and its score is now officially ‘Mixed’.
• Cuphead’s brutal but you’ll probably buy it anyway because a) it’s gorgeous and b) everyone else did.
• Assassin’s Creed Origins will have a Discovery Tour mode where you learn history with no combat. Here’s the tamest evisceration screenshot in videogames.
• Here’s that remarkable and unnecessary guide to how to get out of Heat Signature’s practice mode the hard way: by drifting so far you find the real world.
• Here’s Tom F’s Divinity character transforming from a lizard wearing a bucket to a barrel with a tail.
• Total War: Warhammer II has treacherous rats with invisible cities and dinosaurs who want paying, dammit.
• Tom S wants to see a game inspired by the art of Sergio Toppi rather than Francesco Toppi, who is someone else.

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Chris Thursten
Tom Senior
Tom Francis

Our intro music is by The Mandibles from their track Clambake. Many of the band members now tour as Count Bobo And The Bullion.